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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway to leave the White House at the end of the month, citing the need to focus on her family — Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to President Trump and one of his longest-serving aides, is leaving the White House at the end of the month. — Conway, whose title is counselor …
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Kellyanne Conway announces she's leaving the White House and George Conway is stepping away from Lincoln Project
Kellyanne Conway announces she's leaving the White House and George Conway is stepping away from Lincoln Project
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Kellyanne Conway leaving White House
Kellyanne Conway leaving White House
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Timothy Alberta / Politico:
The Grand Old Meltdown — Earlier this month, while speaking via Zoom to a promising group of politically inclined high school students, I was met with an abrupt line of inquiry. “I'm sorry, but I still don't understand,” said one young man, his pitch a blend of curiosity and exasperation.
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Last-minute confusion: Many Republicans still in the dark about convention — The majority of Republican politicians and operatives will learn about the details of this week's convention in the same manner most Americans do — by watching it unfold on TV. — The lack of information …
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CNN:
Why Trump can't have an ‘optimistic’ GOP convention — Stelter: We can expect a ‘grievance convention’ at RNC — David Axelrod, a senior CNN political commentator and host of “The Axe Files,” was senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The Republican convention will be The Trump Show from start to finish
The Republican convention will be The Trump Show from start to finish
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: Falwell says ‘Fatal Attraction’ threat led to depression — Jerry Falwell Jr., suspended as president of Virginia's Christian-focused Liberty University after a string of embarrassing acts, today said that he has suffered depression caused by a former family friend who had an affair …
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Revealed: Jared Kushner's Private Channel With Putin's Money Man — DIRECT LINE — More than a dozen Trump administration officials, current and former, described a clandestine relationship between Jared Kushner and the CEO of a Kremlin sovereign wealth fund.
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Kenosha emergency curfew in place after police shoot man; video appears to show officer firing several shots into man's back — Kenosha police shot a man Sunday evening, setting off unrest in the city after a video appeared to show the officer firing several shots at close range into the man's back.
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Kenosha News:
WATCH NOW: State DOJ will probe officer-involved shooting; man in serious condition — A man was serious condition at a Milwaukee-area hospital after he was shot when officers were sent to the 2800 block of 40th Street late Sunday afternoon for what police called a domestic incident.
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Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
Video shows Wisconsin police shooting a Black man multiple times as he enters a car
Video shows Wisconsin police shooting a Black man multiple times as he enters a car
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right — Ms. Tufekci, a computer programmer who became a sociologist, sounded an early alarm on the need for protective masks. It wasn't the first time she was right about something big. — When the Centers for Disease Control …
Jerry Seinfeld / New York Times:
So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’ — Mr. Seinfeld is a comedian. — When I got my first apartment in Manhattan in the hot summer of 1976, there was no pooper-scooper law, and the streets were covered in dog crap. — I signed the rental agreement, walked outside, and my car had been towed.
Donald J. Trump for President:
Trump Campaign Announces President Trump's 2nd Term Agenda: Fighting for You! — Building on the incredible achievements of President Donald J. Trump's first term in office, the President's re-election campaign today released a set of core priorities for a second term under the banner of “Fighting for You!”
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Jeff Flake joins over two-dozen former GOP members of Congress to launch ‘Republicans for Biden’ — Announcement comes on the first day of the Republican National Convention — EXCLUSIVE: More than two-dozen former Republican members of Congress threw their support behind a “Republicans for Biden” …
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Washington Post:
Trump to announce emergency authorization of convalescent plasma as covid-19 treatment — The FDA action will be highlighted at a news conference later Sunday afternoon. — On the eve of the Republican National Convention where President Trump hopes to revive his flagging political fortunes …
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Arielle Mitropoulos / ABC News:
Biden to ABC's David Muir on raising taxes: ‘No new taxes’ for anyone making less than $400,000 — Everybody should pay “their fair share,” Biden said. — In the first joint interview with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris …
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Kamala Harris to ABC's Robin Roberts: Revisiting primary debate clash is a ‘distraction’
Kamala Harris to ABC's Robin Roberts: Revisiting primary debate clash is a ‘distraction’
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
The Supporters Buoying Trump's Spirits: Boat Owners — Parades of seagoing Trump fans have been touted by the president and his campaign in the absence of his signature campaign rallies — Trish Willis hasn't returned to her nursing job in Atlanta since the outbreak of Covid-19, and still won't get on an airplane.
Ali Harb in / Middle East Eye:
EXCLUSIVE: Biden aides apologise privately over attack on Linda Sarsour — In a private call with community activists, a recording of which was obtained by MEE, Biden campaign officials said statements against Sarsour were an ‘egregious misstep’ — Top aides to presidential candidate Joe Biden …
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Andrea González-Ramírez / GEN:
Why a Third of Latinos Still Plan to Vote for Trump — Entrepreneurial and evangelical, Republican Latinos are a force to be reckoned with this November. — The political evolution of Mindy Garcia occurred very slowly, then all at once. Growing up up a Democrat in California in the 1980s and 1990s …
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Jemele Hill Says America Is Nazi Germany — Jemele Hill, ESPN's favorite Colin Kaepernick documentary producer, is at it again Tweeting this evening that America was nearly as bad as Nazi Germany. Interestingly, this statement, that the United States was just as bad as Nazi Germany …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Mark Meadows dodges questions about Trump's QAnon embrace: 'We don't even know what it is' — White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Sunday dodged questions about President Donald Trump's embrace of QAnon days after the president said followers of the conspiracy theory “love our country.”
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Clinesmith's Guilty Plea: The Perfect Snapshot of Crossfire Hurricane Duplicity — Carter Page was a CIA asset, not a Russian spy, and the FBI knew it early on but plowed ahead with its fantasy anyway. — Author's Note: This is the first of a three-part series.
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
As Census Count Resumes, Doubts About Accuracy Continue to Grow — Wracked by the pandemic and politics and desperately short of time, the last stage of the population count is unfolding in historic doubt. — Around 38 million households are still uncounted, and officials …